It was the beauty of movement that originally sparked my passion in osteopathy. From a young age, I loved creative endeavours and art, as well as well the feel and look of efficient, fluid motion. I sought after movement skills under many disciplines such as yoga, tai chi and dance. I came to osteopathy as a patient first, after an injury at the age of 21.

I was utterly fascinated by the discipline. After one visit to a local osteopath I went to the local library and devoured all the books I could find on osteopathy. At the time I lived in Finland, and it turned out I needed to leave the country to study osteopathy to the level I desired. It seemed impossible for a broke literature and philosophy student to achieve, and felt like the odds were stacked against me. My dream was big enough, my intuition was right, and eventually I found a way to make it happen. I moved to London to study at the British School of Osteopathy. After rigorous academic training and a Master’s thesis in addition to over a 1000 hours of supervised clinical experience I received a Master's degree in Osteopathy with distinction in 2010.

I practiced and lived in London and Yorkshire in the UK. After graduation my first endeavour was to learn as much about functional movement as possible, and incorporating it into my practice. I completed the GIFT mentorship at the Gray Institute in 2011, and attended three movement workshops with Movement Culture (Ido Portal method) teachers.

Living in the UK I had really missed access to nature and felt deprived of that connection that had been so essential growing up in Finland. Culturally Finns are so very deeply connected to nature - I grew up foraging and roaming in the woods and swimming in lakes. I felt the longing in my bones. In the beginning of 2012 I moved to Calgary, and found ways to foster that relationship as well as serving the local community .

As I and my practice have matured, the outward expression of movement has subdued to only one of my interests. I maintain my daily practice, but it ranges from yoga to resistance training, hiking, biking, movement drills and energy cultivating work in -exercises. I am learning to listen to my body even more sensitively, and becoming very flexible with providing it with the inputs it needs. Health and vitality have taken more of a center stage, and studies in visceral osteopathy and holistic lifestyle coaching are adding new layers to my practice.

I would love to be a companion on your journey to health.


Experience

2006 - training at the British School of Osteopathy

2010 - osteopathic therapist at the Wadsworth Osteopaths

2011 - mentorship (GIFT) at the Gray Institute

2012 - osteopathic therapist at Intrinsi

2015 - started Inka Uppal Osteopathic Therapy

2016 - started training in Barral Visceral Osteopathy - VM1-4

2021 - training at Chek Institute - Holistic Lifestyle Coach Level 1

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